The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Pulitzer Prize Winner
Erschienen am 24. August 2011
464 Seiten
978-0-307-75896-5 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.
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Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. His books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Radicalism of the American Revolution, the Bancroft Prize-winning The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, and The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History. He writes frequently for The New York Review of Books and The New Republic.
Inhalt
- Intro
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- I Monarchy
- 1. Hierarchy
- 2. Patricians and Plebeians
- 3. Patriarchal Dependence
- 4. Patronage
- 5. Political Authority
- II Republicanism
- 6. The Republicanization of Monarchy
- 7. A Truncated Society
- 8. Loosening the Bands of Society
- 9. Enlightened Paternalism
- 10. Revolution
- 11. Enlightenment
- 12. Benevolence
- III Democracy
- 13. Equality
- 14. Interests
- 15. The Assault on Aristocracy
- 16. Democratic Officeholding
- 17. A World Within Themselves
- 18. The Celebration of Commerce
- 19. Middle-Class Order
- Notes
